AN: Hey guys! New chapter, yay! I'm on thanksgiving break, thank GOD! How was everyone's thanksgiving? I hope it was good and full of yummy food and NOT spending the entire day shopping? That's for today, Black Friday! So happy shopping, my shopper readers! For those who don't celebrate thanksgiving, I hope you all are just having a great week in general!
"Hey!" I greeted Sarah when she opened the door.
"Hey Aria! Come on in." she smiled and moved aside as I stepped into the Morgan house. Benny and Sarah had both texted me that they'd be here so I figured I'd stop by.
"What'cha up to?" I asked as we walked to the stairs.
"I'm upstairs with Jane... One of her dolls broke and she's pretty upset about it." She sighed.
"Poor Jane." I sympathized.
"And your boyfriend is in Ethan's room. I heard them shouting about some new game."
"Knights of Ninjutsu 4." I blurted out.
"Oh no, they've contaminated you!" She teased.
"I waited in line with Benny." I smiled, remembering the long but worth it wait "That was a fun five hours."
"Do I want to know?" Sarah asked as we got to Jane's room.
"Probably not-" I stopped in mid-laughter at the sight in Jane's room. Standing next to her was a strange woman with Blue hair and metallic pink and silver clothes.
"Hey, look what I made!" Jane said happily, holding hands with the woman.
"Hi, I'm Debby Dazzle. Wanna play?" the woman asked.
"What the fu-"
"Ethan! You're gonna wanna see this!" Sarah called, cutting off my almost-curse.
There was scrambling from Ethan's room and Ethan and Benny burst out the door and skidded over to us. "What, what?! Oh hey when did you get here?" Benny smiled down at me, wrapping an arm around my waist.
"Not now Romeo, look!" I pointed to the Debby Sparkle what's-her-face walking around Jane's room. Sarah had pulled the little girl to her.
"What the heck is that?" Ethan asked.
"That… is a life-sized Debby Dazzle. I think I had a dream about this once." Benny said.
"Jane, can I talk to you for a minute?" Ethan asked his younger sister, leading her to the side, Sarah following.
"Excuse me?" I said, turning to look at Benny.
"Before I met you!" he defended.
"Whatever." I stuck my tongue out at him but stayed at his side nonetheless. "Weirdo."
"Let's have Ice cream and go to a roller disco dance party!" Debby Dazzle said.
"Yay!" Jane cried
"I'm in!" Benny said, looking around with a smile on his face. I nodded, feeling a sudden desire for the cold, creamy sweet treat.
"No! No parties." Ethan shot it down. "We need to turn her back into a doll.
"No!" Debby Dazzle suddenly looked very angry and dangerous. "I don't want to go back, it's so boring. I wanna have fun! I won't go back, I won't!"
Jane ran over to the doll-woman and grabbed her hand. "Don't worry Debby, I won't let them turn you back into a doll, I promise!"
"Oh goodie! Let's celebrate. Cupcake Dance party!" Debby smiled at Jane, and they left the room.
Benny was practically clapping with glee. "Cupcakes are better than ice cream..." I smiled, twisting my fingers into his.
"Find a way to fix this!" Sarah snapped, stalking over and thrusting Benny's spell book into his chest. "Now!"
"It's not that simple!" I sighed after her as she left down the hallway.
"I think Jane used a different spell." Benny said, stopping Ethan before he could walk out. He flipped through the book. "Or different words. I can't reverse it until I know the exact spell."
"Kitchen party!" Debby's voice came from downstairs.
"Just find the spell, fast." Ethan sounded desperate as he all but dashed downstairs.
"Oh, so you get to go to the party. That's fair!" Benny called after his friend.
"Oh yes, now you're stuck up here with me." I smirked, looking up at him through my eyelashes.
He grinned down at me before taking my hand. "Come on."
"Ohoho, this IS a cupcake party!" Benny smiled when we finally came downstairs.
I surveyed the kitchen, the island counter covered in cupcakes and cupcake-making ingredients.
"Did you find anything?" Ethan asked as I helped myself to a cupcake. Yum!
"Well..." I said through my cupcake.
"I've got good news and bad news. Bad news, I couldn't figure out the spell. Good news, I'm on level two of Knights of Ninjutsu Four! And Aria and I had lots of fun." he pulled me into his side, making me giggle.
"I helped." I giggled.
"You've been up there an hour!" Sarah said.
"It's a hard game! And I kept getting distracted." he smirked.
"Helped with that too!" I cracked up.
"You guys were in my room, canoodling?!" Ethan accused in disgust.
"Mmm, lemon swirl." Debby Dazzle said happily, holding out a cupcake to Sarah.
"Please, no more cupcakes!" Sarah begged, shying away from the pastry.
"Ooh, I'll take a lemon swirl." Benny stepped forward and grabbed one.
"You've got a bit of frosting on your face." I teased.
"Where?"
"Right here." I leaned up and kissed his cheek.
"Oops, I think you missed some." Benny smiled.
"You're right." I leaned up and put a light kiss on his lips. The other groaned in disgust.
"Oh no, look at your clothes!" Debby Said "I know what we should play next. Debby Dazzle Fashion Show!"
"Ok!" Jane agreed happily, bounding past her older brother.
Debby followed but bent over, yelling out in pain. "Are you ok?" Ethan asked.
She grabbed his hand and Ethan froze up like he was having a vision. Suddenly, over as quickly as it started, Debby stood upright and said "I'm fine, great in fact. Let's go have some fashion fun." she spoke almost mechanically, devoid of any emotion on her face, and limped out of the kitchen with Jane.
Ethan almost collapsed in a faint, grabbing into the counter for support.
"Whoa! What happened?" Benny asked, all of us rushing over.
"I had a vision. Debby needs life energy to stay in human form. Age absorbs it through contact, if we-" he almost collapsed again.
"Whoa, easy buddy." Benny went to his friend's side and helped him up. "She must have drained you good."
"Wait, maybe if we keep her away from people long enough she'll turn back into a doll!" Ethan said.
"Let's hope." Sarah sighed, and the doorbell rang.
"Yeah! The fun starts now!" the door opened to Rory's smiling face.
"Rory!" I squealed, rushing past Benny to hug my favorite vampire ninja.
"Hey Aria!" he hugged me back.
"Rory, now's not the best time." Ethan told him.
"And give me back my girlfriend." Benny said, snatching my hand and pulling me back to his side. I pouted from being separated from my Rory.
"Wait, you're not gonna invite me in?" Rory asked, sad.
"Sorry, the fun can start later." Benny said, shutting the door in Rory's face.
"Aw..." I heard Rory through the door.
"I'll see you later Rory!" I called before getting pulled away by Benny.
"I don't understand what you see in him." Benny grumbled, pulling me up the stairs.
"Yeah, he's so... Rory!" Ethan added.
"He's like an adorable little puppy! Just begging to be liked and played with... I just can't resist a puppy!" I laughed.
"Is this what girls usually do with their dolls?" Benny asked as we watched Jane and Debby Dazzle rip and tear Jane's clothes.
"You don't do this with yours?" Sarah asked with a laugh.
"Those are action figures." Benny said, offended.
"Duh Sarah." I snickered sarcastically, totally on her side.
"We have to get her alone!" Sarah whispered.
"Hey Debby, guess what!" Ethan called to the Blue-haired woman "I found a bunch of... things that girls say go with shoes!"
"Ooh, I love accessorizing!" Debby said, getting up and following Ethan out. Benny went with him and I stayed with Sarah.
"Bed time!" Sarah said to the little girl.
"Aww." she whined.
"Let's get on our jammies!" I smiled.
"You didn't bring pajamas." Jane pointed out.
"I know, but I wish I did." I said, leading her to her dresser and pulling out a shirt, holding it up against my much bigger body. "Think I could borrow yours?"
She giggled and picked out a pair of pajamas.
"Jane's out like a light!" I announced, flouncing into the kitchen, Sarah walking behind me.
Ethan and Benny were cleaning up the cupcake mess.
"Great, now I just have to convince her she dreamed the whole thing." Ethan said.
The front door opened and we heard Ethan's dad. "Hello, we're home!"
"Ah! My parents! Can you go stall them, now?!" Ethan whispered in a panicky voice.
Sarah nodded and took off. "Benny, Aria, quick!" he hissed at us.
I quickened my clean up pace, taking things and just putting them anywhere.
We finally finished and I decided it was time for me to go in the form of a text from my mom.
"I gotta go. Good luck with Debby Dazzle, the Doll woman!" I hugged Ethan lightly. "Later Ethan." he said bye and I went to Benny. "Bye Benny." I smiled, wrapping my arms around his neck in a tighter hug and kissing him.
"Bye Aria." He kissed my forehead "Be safe."
"Always am!" I smiled, and left.
Walking home I thought about our activities alone in Ethan's bedroom. First Benny and I did look through the book, but after finding nothing we gave up and instead chose to make out on the bed. Benny's learned how to make me feel good, holding me close and running a hand up and down my back gently, the other resting in my hip or in my hair, or when he climbs on top of me, used to hold himself up. Today he was soft and gentle, kissing me softly as we lay together on our sides.
Benny and I were walking in the hallway when Ethan came up to us.
"I hope that's your good news face?" he asked Benny desperately.
"I am 99.9% sure I found the right spell!" Benny smiled.
"Okay, let's do it!" Ethan said.
"But," Benny drew the word our "I can't be sure how Jane pronounced it. She has to cast the reversal spell herself."
"Wonderful." Ethan sighed. "And my parents?"
"They should revert back to normal once the spells been reversed." Benny assured his friend.
"Good."
"Now all we have to do is find a life-sized killer fashion doll and bring her down. No problem." I said sarcastically. We all kind of sighed.
"Have you talked to Rory?" Ethan asked.
"He sent me a text saying he was hanging out with his new girlfriend." Benny said.
"Me too." I agreed.
"He's mad that we didn't let him in!" Ethan sighed.
"Or... He actually has a girlfriend." I said.
The two boys burst out laughing. I scoffed and rolled my eyes. "Rory can have a girlfriend you guys! Someone's bound to love his geeky nerdy adorableness someday!" I defended my blonde friend.
They continued to laugh and the bell rang, so we went to class.
After class Benny and Ethan and I walked out of the room to find Rory right down the hall. "Hey, Rory, we know you were mad about last night, but-" Ethan started.
"Mad?" Rory cut him off "How could I be mad? Last night was awesome! It's not every day I get to rescue a fair maiden from your clutches!"
Oh shit.
"Especially one who is SOOO into me!" he continued.
I knew the guys were thinking the same thing I was.
"Wait, what? You let Debby out?!" Ethan asked. Rory nodded. "Why would you do that?!"
"'Cause she's hot." was Rory's happily blunt reply.
"Dude, she's a doll." Benny said like it was obvious to the blonde. "I mean like, literally, a doll." Rory still looked confused. "As in she's made of plastic."
"Well yeah, all the hottest girls are." Rory replied. I gave him a look. Should I be offended?
"Rory, get this through your thick vampire skull;" Ethan snapped. "She's not human!" he whispered the last part.
"Are you guys talking about me?" came Debby's voice from behind us.
"HOLY SHI-" I stopped myself from yelling out a cuss in school as I nearly jumped out of my skin. Ethan and Benny breathed in sharply and jumped at my sides.
"There's my girl," Rory smiled. "How'd it go with Principal Hicks?"
"Oh, him? He was such a doll. Hi guys, did you miss me?" She asked, coming towards us with her arms out for a hug. Ethan and Benny made scared noises and jumped back behind Rory, holding the blonde in front of them. I ducked away from her and pressed myself against the lockers. "Jumpy much?"
"Flesh, Blood, More than eight points of articulation. Aria. All things I intend to keep, thank you." Benny bit sarcastically.
"You're coming with us Debbie." Ethan declared, pushing past Rory.
"Over my undead body!" Rory said, going to stand defensively in front of Debbie.
"Rory, she's dangerous." I said to him softly, hoping he would listen to reason.
His fangs came out and he hissed at me angrily. I squeaked and jumped away in fright. With a glare he said "So am I, so, back off!"
After I practically jumped into Benny's arms, Rory made a "humph" noise and left, wrapping an arm around Debby.
The three of us looked at each other and said together "Sarah."
"So it's settled. You'll kick Debbie's sorry plastic butt." Benny said.
"What? No, I never said that."
"Come on, she's got Rory wrapped around her little finger." Ethan pleaded.
"Stupid plastic bitch." I pouted.
"At least I got a girlfriend before he did." Benny said, squeezing me tight in a hug as I sat on his lap.
"We have to find a way to split them up." Ethan said.
"Or someone" I said, getting an idea.
Ethan, Benny and I looked at each other with the same smile and nod. "Nice." Benny complimented.
"Okay Kirk and Spock and... Aria, you wanna full me in on this little mind meld?" Sarah asked.
"Still no call from Erica?" Ethan asked Sarah. We all stood in the hallway in between class. "I guess she bailed on us. Great." he sighed when Sarah shook her head no.
"No way. Erica may be self-absorbed but she always comes through for me."
I noticed my favorite little blonde vampire walking up to us and I gave him a side hug and asked "Hey Rory, where's your girlfriend?"
"Beats me." he said with a weird look on his face "She went off looking for the 'one who made her'? You guys were right, that girl is whack. Sorry I vamped out on you Aria."
"It's ok Rory" I smiled, glad to have my friend back. Then Rory left.
"The one who made her?" Benny asked. "Who-"
"Jane!" Ethan exclaimed, cutting Benny off "She's looking for Jane. I'm supposed to pick her up from school today..."
"Give me the keys, I'll pick her up and meet you there!" Sarah said, grabbing the keys from Ethan's hand.
"Well what do we do?" I asked.
"For now I guess we just go to my house." Ethan said.
"Okay."
Once we reached Ethan's house we found our problem. Ethan gave Sarah the keys and we were locked out. From the outside we could hear noises of a fight going on. Debbie must be in there.
"Guys, I think Debbie's in there." I said. "Isn't there another way in?"
"The back door!" Ethan said, and we raced off to the back of the house. We opened the door and ran in. By the front door lay Debbie's body and her unattached head.
"Holy crap." I blurted out.
"Whoa. You pretzeled her good!" Benny complimented Sarah, who sat at the top of the stairs.
"Sarah! You ok?" Ethan called up to her.
"I'm ok." she panted.
Ethan bent down and grabbed Debbie's head by the top of her blue hair.
"Ethan, what are you doing?!" Benny asked, scared and disgusted.
"Scare finder rule number ten: nothing can do anything without a head." Ethan smiled.
Suddenly Debbie's arms reached up and grabbed her head, pulling it from Ethan's grasp. Benny screamed, followed by a shriek from Ethan. Benny screamed again, and I screamed too and we bolted up the stairs.
"Holy shit holy SHIT!" I cried.
Debbie put her head on and looked up at us angrily.
"Sarah, where's Jane?" Ethan said lowly.
"She's in her hiding spot." Sarah answered. "You guys go and I'll hold her off as long as I can."
"I'm gonna go find out how she read that spell." Benny said "What are you going to do?"
"I'm following you." I told him, clutching his arm.
"I'm gonna buy us some time. C'mon!" Ethan said, getting up and running up the stairs.
"Ok." Benny and I said, running upstairs as well.
"Jane, we know you're in there." I said to Ethan's closet door.
"You always hide in there." Benny said. "And I know how your mind works!" he sighed. He was so cute when he was modest! "And we need to know how you said the fix-it spell." he reached over quickly and jiggled the doorknob roughly. Unsuccessful, he leaned back and sighed. "What's your price."
The door then opened and Jane's little head popped out. "I have a few ideas." she smiled sweetly.
"Guys get in the closet!" Ethan came running in wearing a ridiculous sparkly blue dress shirt and pink sparkly dress pants, with his hair slicked back and a large, fake bushy mustache on his face.
"What the f-" Benny slapped a hand over my mouth before I could finish my cussing in front of Jane.
"No time for questions! Just get in the closet! And don't say a word!" Ethan commanded in a whisper-yell, setting down a cd player and grabbing one of those rotating light balls.
Benny, Jane and I herded into Ethan's closet. It was small, so Benny and I ended up pressed against each other. "This would be a bad time to think dirty thoughts." I whispered quietly in his ear.
Pop music started playing loudly and Ethan yelled "Oh Debbie!"
The door opened and we heard Debbie say "Dazzle Dan, what are you doing here?"
"Become a doll with me again, Debbie." Ethan said in a weird, deeper voice.
"No. I don't wanna go back, I'm alive now."
"Debbie." Ethan sounded taken aback "This world is boring! Do you want to have to work at a Job?"
"No, not really." Debbie said.
"Then let's be dolls again. You can come with me and we can party on my... Speedboat..."
"Dazzle Dan doesn't have a speed boat."
Oh shit.
"Dazzle Dan has a hover yacht." Debbie continued.
Fuck.
"Hover yacht, really? Cool..." Ethan said, and then made a weird choking noise.
"You are a fake!" Debbie accused.
"Shit," I breathed "We gotta get out there!"
Jane opened the door and stepped out quickly, Benny and I following.
"Hi Jane!" Debbie said, turning to look at the little girl.
Jane said the reversal spell and shot a blue ball of light at Debbie. Debbie clattered to the floor, back in doll form.
"Are you ok Ethan?!" Jane ran over to her older brother, who was massaging his neck.
"Yeah," he breathed "Thanks Jane."
Benny and I stepped completely out of the closet.
Sarah walked in. "What happened to me? What happened to you?!" she asked, gesturing at Ethan's crazy outfit.
"Nice hair man." Benny said.
Ethan's parents groaned, waking up on his bed.
"Why are we in our clothes?" Mr. Morgan asked.
"Why are we in Ethan's bed?" Mrs. Morgan asked.
Noticing all of us, they yelled in surprise.
Benny jumped in shock next to me.
"Howdy." I smiled in greeting, waving.
"So your parents don't remember anything?" Benny asked.
"Nope. As far as they know, they came home and crashed the whole day." Ethan said.
"We're off the hook!" I cheered.
"Less talking, more dancing!" Jane told us.
"C'mon guys, we promised." Sarah shrugged.
"Party at the disco beach!" Jane cheered.
I laughed and Ethan bent down to hit the play button on the CD player. Some Beach-pop music played and Benny danced out to the middle of the room. Ethan and I followed and we all danced in the middle of Ethan's decked out beach themed bedroom.
"C'mon Erica, you said you wanted to go dancing!" Sarah said to our grumpy blonde friend sitting in a chair.
"Yeah, don't be such a party pooper!" Benny smiled.
Erica hissed, flashing her fangs.
"Or poop. Poop away. She scares me!" he whispered to Ethan.
Erica stood up and started to dance with us. We all laughed and Benny grabbed my hands, dancing with me.
"You look cute in swim trunks." I told him.
"You look cute in anything." He smiled.
I laughed and we continued to dance.
AN: I hope you guys like this chapter! I didn't get many reviews on the last chapter, did you guys not like it a lot? I got one review for Chapter Six, from a very kind MsWildfire97! I hope this chapter was good enough!
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